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n. A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star.

n. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.

n. A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.

n. A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.

n. Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.

n. Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.

n. A mass of stone or other substance which sometimes falls to the earth from space beyond the moon, burning up from atomospheric friction and creating a brilliant but usually very brief trail of light in the atmosphere; also called a shooting star.

n. Any atmospheric phenomenon.

n. Specifically A transient fiery or luminous body seen in or through the atmosphere, usually in its more elevated region: a shooting-star. If it reaches the surface of the earth, it is called a meteorite, formerly aërolite, and also (very rarely) uranolite.

n. A small body moving in space, and of the same nature as those which become visible by encountering our atmosphere.

n. An abbreviation of meteorology, meteorological.

n. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere

n. a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

"The term meteor shower is somewhat misleading, because the streaks of light are generally caused by space debris no bigger than grains of sand, which hit and then burn up in the"

falling star    comet    asteroid   

meteoroid    meteorous    meteorism    meteorite   

shooting star   

meteoroscope    aerometeor    meteorette    meteor hammer    meteorosophistical    meteorite    meteoroscopy    meteor shower    meteoric    meteoroid   

meatier   

comet    meteorite    asteroid    lightning    hurricane    thunderbolt    constellation    rainbow    pinpoint    meteoric